Re: Re: Reading in data that is


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Re: Re: Reading in data that is

by mikeB (Friar)

on Oct 10, 2001 at 20:09 UTC ( #118031=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I'm curious why you used

s/"//g;

rather than

tr/"//d;

I don't advocate speed optimization at the expense of clarity, but in this case both seem clear to me, and I'd expect tr/// to not use the regex engine and thus be faster.

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by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2001 at 20:58 UTC

If you can read either, use the faster one. But, please note that speed of execution is not Perl's strong suit. It's good at that, but speed of development is why most people use Perl. In that vein, s/"//g is just as good.

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